Test 1 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 2: the Rabbit…

bruv, why'd the wild bunnies bolt like that, proper fast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wild bunnies · What happens: bolt

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 159 «Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 2: the Rabbit meets two wild rabbits, is called germs, and is thrown out» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bolt	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 bolt	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 bolt	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bunnies	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bunnies	amod
7	bunnies	bunny	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bolt	nsubj
8	bolt	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 bolt	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fast	punct
12	proper	properly	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 bolt	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bolt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	present	the wild bunnies					like that; bruv vocative; fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

cos they were scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					scared property	tree rules

Option 2

cos the Boy was chasing them round the whole garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chasing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chasing	aux
5	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cos	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chasing	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	10 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 garden	amod
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chasing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	chase	past · progressive	the Boy	them = they		the whole garden			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme round garden=Trajectory

Option 3

cos a dog came barking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
5	barking	barking	ADV	_	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	come	past	a dog					barking property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos the Boy came running past them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
5	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
6	past	past	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	come	past	the Boy		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	gerund	the Boy not said here	past them = they	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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